Getting Started with Microsoft Azure AI Services
Resources to help you get started with Microsoft Azure AI Services (previously known as Cognitive Services)
What you will need
Background
Azure AI Services brings AI within reach of every developer through a family of APIs that donât require machine-learning expertise. In this session, Lebogang will give you an overview of the many APIs available under the Microsoft Cognitive Services umbrella, and a demonstration of how Cognitive Services enables you to add advanced AI functionality, such as vision, speech, search, and text services with only a few lines of code for modern application development.
Demos where Cognitive Services is applied
Play around with the below resources to see how you can use Cognitive Services in your applications
- Face Detection Demo using Face API
- Azure Media Services Video Indexer please adhear to privacy rules
- Azure Machine Learning Studio (classic) (guest access available) - Great Data Science Resource
- Knowledge mining demo Wolters Kluwer Document Demo by Wolters Kluwer, a global provider of professional information, software solutions, and services for clinicians, nurses, accountants, lawyers, and tax, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and regulatory sectors.
- Visit AI Lab to learn about breakthrough AI innovations
Get Started
Lots of azure solutions available here, below is what I often emphasise for use at hackathons
- ~Build a web bot using QnA maker~ QnAMaker is now deprecated. We recommend migrating to Custom Question and Answering service (https://language.cognitive.azure.com/questionAnswering/projects)
- Working with large datasets? Consider Knowledge mining, works with both structured and unstructured data.
- Want to host your solution as a website? learn more about serverless apps and static web apps with these resources:
- Create serverless apps tutorials
- Beginnerâs Series to Serverless videos
- Learn Azure Static Web Apps tutorials
- Azure Static Web Apps Tips & Tricks videos
Book recommendations đ
- Computational and Inferential Thinking - This is the textbook for the Foundations of Data Science class at UC Berkeley. Really great examples that can be used as a firm data science foundation. See my code repo and download the Jupyter Notebook on the exercises, output included.
- The Future Computed - Free ebook in pdf format The Future Computed, Artificial Intelligence and its role in society By Microsoft.
Wondering about the ethical applications of AI?
- Learn about Empowering responsible AI practices
- Learn about Microsoft Responsible AI in Practice - GitHub Repo for the Workshop
Feedback
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